Happy And Content Quotes:

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

topic: Positive, Attitude, Certain, Inner Peace And Happiness, Inspirational Attitude

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Friedrich Koenig

topic: Happiness, Appreciate, Forget, Always Happy, Happy Times

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Happiness, Being Happy, Motivation, Make Someone Happy, Always Happy

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

- John Lennon

topic: Mother, Keys, Years, Inner Peace And Happiness, Just Being You

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Social Harmony, Life Philosophy

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Positive Thoughts, Happier Life

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Birthday, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Peace And Happiness, Inspiring Yourself

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

- John Lennon

topic: School, Grew Up, Grew, Just Being You, Just Want To Be Happy

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Happy, Joy Of Living, Just Be Happy

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Happiness, Happy, Hippie, Just Be Happy, Secret To Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Make Someone Happy, Joy Happiness

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

- Laozi

topic: Life, Happiness, Spiritual, Life Is Simple, Discovering Yourself

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim

source: James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

topic: Positive, Happiness, Wise, Always Happy, Foolish Man

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Being Happy, People, Guarantees, Secret To Happiness, Being Happy With Yourself

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

- George Burns

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Always Happy, Large Family

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

- Oscar Wilde

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Happiness, Hilarious, Spiritual Happiness, Insults You

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Influencing People

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Interesting Life, Make Up Your Mind

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Joy Of Living, Joy To The World

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Happiness, Want, Excited, Appreciate What You Have, Want To Be Happy

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

- Robert Breault

topic: Happiness, Reason, Happy And Content

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

- Salvador Dali

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Happiness, Happy, Surrealism, Overdose

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life, Eat Pray Love Book, Eat Love Pray

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Always Happy, Inner Peace And Happiness

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

- Doug Larson

topic: Happy, People, Contentment, Looking For Happiness, Happy And Content

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Happiness, Happy, Wish, Being Unhappy, Art Of Happiness

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Stars, Lying, Moon, Creativeness, Inner Peace And Happiness

Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared a story he had often told in discourse of a man and woman who lived at opposite ends of a lake. They were deeply in love but only met by chance when sometimes out rowing on the water. He said it was beautiful how Shunyo and I met like this couple. When we had the feeling to be together, we would meet and enjoy. And when we were apart, we were also happy and content in our aloneness.

- Swami Anand Milarepa

topic: Beautiful, Girlfriend, Couple, Deeply In Love, Happy And Content

I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Parent, Wonderful, Chalk, Wonderful Parents, Happy And Content

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

- Bo Bice

topic: Jobs, Playing Music, Gigs, Happy And Content

If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.

- Ted Turner

topic: Sex, Mean, People, Happy And Content

By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

- Elizabeth George

source: Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Christian, Inspiration, Sheep, Closest, Happy And Content

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

- Ethel Waters

topic: Jobs, Judging, Outsiders, Happy And Content

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

- Stephanie Perkins

source: Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.94, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Silence, Best Relationship, Action, Happy And Content

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

- Lin Yutang

source: Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

topic: This Life, Existence, Admire, Happy And Content

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"?

- Jon Krakauer

topic: Travel, Special, Able, Happy And Content